Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition for an exterior material of a vehicle. The resin composition may include an amount of about 40 to 90 parts by weight of polypropylene resin having a melt index of about 70 to 110 g/10 min; an amount of about 10 to 40 parts by weight of an olefin block copolymer including an ethylene-based repeating unit and a ?-olefin-based repeating unit having 4 to 30 carbon atoms; an amount of about 10 to 20 parts by weight of needle-shaped inorganic filler having an aspect ratio of about 5 to 10; and an 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of laser-transmitting black colorant, wherein all the parts by weights based on 100 parts by weight of the resin composition. In particular, an average transmittance may range from about 0.01 to about 1% or less in a wavelength of about 380 to 700 nm, and an average transmittance may range from about 15% or greater and less than about 100% in a wavelength of about 800 to 1200 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery having reduced water content and excellent heat resistance and adhesiveness. The functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery contains a heat resistant resin and an acidic group-containing polymer. The percentage content of chlorine atoms in the functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery as measured by combustion ion chromatography is not less than 0.001 mass % and not more than 2.000 mass %.

Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition excellent in fracture resistance, wear resistance, and on-ice performance, and a tire obtained therefrom. There are provided a rubber composition containing: a diene-based rubber component; a short fiber; and a surface active agent, in which the surface active agent contains at least one material selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid polyhydric alcohol ester, a nonionic ester type surface active agent, an alkanolamide type surface active agent, and a sulfonic acid type surface active agent, and a tire obtained from the rubber composition, more particularly a studless tire.

Abstract: A rubber composition is based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a vulcanizing system and a plasticizing system, said reinforcing filler predominantly comprising, by weight, a silica with a very high specific surface area, with a CTAB specific surface area greater than 170 m2/g, and said plasticizing system comprising at least more than 15 phr (parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of elastomer) of a hydrocarbon resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) between ?40° C. and 20° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a propylene resin composition comprising a propylene-based polymer (component A) and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (component B), wherein a content of the component A and a content of the component B are 60 to 90 parts by mass and 10 to 40 parts by mass, respectively, with respect to 100 parts by mass in total of the component A and the component B, and a degree of orientation of a b-axis in an ? crystal of the component A in a molded article that is obtained by injection molding the propylene resin composition into a mold cavity of 100 mm (width)×400 mm (length)×3 mm (thickness) under conditions of a cylinder temperature of 220° C., a mold temperature of 50° C. and an injection speed of 23 mm/sec is 85.0% or more.

Abstract: A silane-modified polymer having a polyisoprene skeleton and a hydrolyzable silyl group is useful as a rubber compounding ingredient. When added to a rubber composition, it is effective for improving the wet grip and substantially reducing the hysteresis loss of the cured rubber composition. Low fuel consumption tires may be manufactured from the rubber composition.

Abstract: A structure material includes a resin, reinforced fibers, and voids, a volume content of the resin being within a range of 2.5% by volume or more and 85% by volume or less, a volume content of the reinforced fibers being within a range of 0.5% by volume or more and 55% by volume or less, the voids being contained in the structure material in a rate within a range of 10% by volume or more and 97% by volume or less, a thickness St of the structure material satisfying a conditional expression: St?Lf2·(1?cos(?f)) where a length of the reinforced fibers is Lf and an oriented angle of the reinforced fibers in a sectional direction of the structure material is ?f, and a compression strength in an in-plane direction at 50% compression of the structure material measured in accordance with JIS K7220 being 3 MPa or more.

Abstract: A structure material includes a resin, reinforced fibers, and voids. The structure material includes a volume content of the resin being within a range of 2.5% by volume or more and 85% by volume or less, a volume content of the reinforced fibers being within a range of 0.5% by volume or more and 55% by volume or less, the voids being contained in the structure material in a rate within a range of 10% by volume or more and 97% by volume or less, a thickness St of the structure material satisfying a conditional expression: St?Lf2·(1?cos(?f)), and a specific bending modulus of the structure material represented as Ec1/3·??1 being within a range of 3 or more and 20 or less, and a bending modulus Ec of the structure material being 3 GPa or more.

Abstract: The invention relates to rubber mixtures, wherein these comprise at least one rubber, excluding silicone rubber, and at least one silatrane of general formula (I) G-Si(—O—CX1X2—CX1X3—)3N??(I) The rubber mixture is produced by mixing at least one rubber and a silatrane of formula (I). The silatrane of formula (I) may be used as a secondary accelerator in rubber mixtures.

Abstract: A rubber composition is based on at least a diene elastomer; 50 to 160 phr (parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of elastomer) of inorganic reinforcing filler; a vulcanization system; a plasticizing system comprising at least one hydrocarbon resin with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of between ?40° C. and 20° C.; as coupling agent, a hydroxysilane polysulfide corresponding to the general formula (I): (HO)aR(3-a)Si—R?—Sx—R?—SiR(3-b) (OH)b (I), in which the R radicals, which are identical or different, are hydrocarbon groups preferably comprising from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, the R? radicals, which are identical or different, are divalent connecting groups preferably comprising from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a and b, which are identical or different, are equal to 1 or 2, x is a number greater than or equal to 2; and a primary amine of formula (IV): R—NH2(IV), in which R represents a linear or branched hydrocarbon group comprising from 8 to 24 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A composition for sealing joints, penetrations and other leaks in particular in the construction field, including at least one ethylenically unsaturated, radically polymerizable water-soluble compound, at least one radical initiator, water and at least one corrosion inhibitor including at least one phosphate. The corresponding composition has a corrosion-inhibiting effect with respect to metal.

Abstract: Disclosed are a rubber composition for tire treads which includes raw rubber including a natural rubber, a solution-polymerized styrene butadiene rubber and a neodymium butadiene rubber, a reinforcing filler including highly dispersible silica and carbon black and a natural oil having an unsaturated fatty acid content of 60 to 90% by weight, and a tire manufactured from the same. The tire manufactured from the rubber composition for tire treads according to the embodiment of the present invention can exhibit excellent braking performance, abrasion resistance and durability.

Abstract: Provided is an additive for rubber that contains a sulfide composition, wherein the sulfide composition in the additive for rubber contains a sulfide compound having the repeating units shown by formula (1), the amount of repeating units (1) in which X=2 is at least 45 molar parts per 100 molar parts of repeating units (1) in the sulfide compound, and the number n of repeating units (1) in the sulfide compound is from 1 to 400, whereby an additive for rubber capable of imparting excellent heat resistance is provided. Also provided is a rubber composition that contains said additive for rubber. wherein X is 1, 2 or 3.

Abstract: Polymer particles having a mean primary particle diameter d50 between 50 nm and 10 pm based on the total weight, containing: A. 10 to 100% by weight of a polymer phase A, obtainable by free-radical copolymerization of an oil-in-water miniemulsion having a monomer mixture as oil phase, containing i) 30 to 99.9% by weight of one or more mono-ethylenically unsaturated monomers II having at least one C12-C48-n-alkyl side chain, ii) 0 to 60% by weight of one or more mono-ethylenically unsaturated monomers II having at least one C1-C11-n-alkyl and/or one C3-C48-i-alkyl side chain, iii) 0.1 to 20% by weight of one or more monomers III having at least two non-conjugated ethylenic double bonds, iv) 0 to 69.9% by weight of one or more (hetero)aromatic, mono-ethylenically unsaturated monomers IV, v) 0 to 40% by weight of one or more other mono-ethylenically unsaturated monomers V; and B.

Abstract: Provided is a fiber-reinforced resin shaped product including reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic resin and having grains on at least a part of a surface thereof. The ratio of a maximum reflectance (R) to a half-value width (H), each of which is obtained by goniophotometric measurement satisfies Expression (1): R/H?0.034×R?0.15 (1). In the expression, R is a maximum reflectance (%), and H is a half-value width (degree).

Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition for tires containing, per 100 parts by mass of diene rubber, from 5 to 120 parts by mass of carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area N2SA of 90 m2/g or less and a compressed DBP absorption (24M4) of 95 to 120 mL/100 g, a ratio ?Dst/Dst of a half width ?Dst (nm) of a mode diameter Dst to the mode diameter Dst (nm) in a Stokes diameter mass distribution curve of aggregates of the carbon black being 0.65 or greater, and the N2SA, (24M4), and Dst satisfying the following formula: (24M4)/Dst<0.0093×N2SA?0.06.

Abstract: This disclosure is to provide a method of manufacturing a rubber composition comprising kneading a rubber composition that includes 100 parts by mass (pbm) of a rubber component (A) including 50 mass % or more of natural rubber, 5-50 pbm of at least one kind of thermoplastic resin (B) selected from among C5-based resins, C5-C9-based resins, C9-based resins, terpene-based resins, terpene-aromatic compound-based resins, rosin-based resins, dicyclopentadiene resins, and alkylphenol-based resins; 20-120 pbm of a filler (C) including silica; at least one kind of vulcanization accelerator (D) selected from among guanidines, sulfenamides, thiazoles, thiourea and diethyl thiourea; a silane coupling agent (E); and a vulcanizing agent (F). The kneading comprises a kneading stage A for kneading components (A)-(C), part or all of component (D), and 2 pbm or more of component (E), and a kneading stage B for kneading component (F) with a kneaded product of the kneading stage A.

Abstract: Provided is a sizing-coated carbon fiber bundle that exhibits good spreadability in a step for spreading sizing-coated carbon fibers even in the case in which said carbon fibers exhibit a high adhesiveness with respect to a thermoplastic resin. Provided is a sizing-coated carbon fiber bundle that contains, as sizing components, at least a compound (A) containing an amino group or an amide group.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composition for use in a number of applications including tires. The composition comprises a blend of a rubber component, reinforcing particulate fillers, and based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of the rubber component; from about 5 phr to about 70 phr of a terpene phenol resin having a softening point temperature in the range of from about 100° C. to about 170° C. and having a hydroxyl value in the range from about 5 to about 30. In one embodiment, the terpene phenol resin has a number average molecular weight of from about 700 Da to about 790 Da, a weight average molecular weight of from about 930 Da to about 1090 Da, and a polydispersity index of from about 1.25 to about 1.45.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a rubber composition for tires which has excellent processability and has excellent low heat build-up when formed into a tire; and a pneumatic tire using the same. The rubber composition for tires of the present invention is a rubber composition for tires, the rubber composition containing a diene rubber (A) and a microparticle (B), a vinyl group content of the diene rubber (A) being from 5 to 35 mass %, the microparticle (B) being a mercapto group-containing organic microparticle in which a crosslinkable oligomer or polymer (b1) is crosslinked, an average particle size of the microparticle (B) being from 1 to 200 ?m, and a content of the microparticle (B) being from 1 to 55 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber (A).